[Seaside] Why seaside really sucks! COMMMMMMMENTS are MISSING

[Sebastian Sastre]

> > Pay it forward.
> 
> Ok, I obviously wasn't clear here.  I'm not complaining about 
> commenting my code.  I have actually read code where the 
> comment about "what the following method does" was longer 
> then the actual code to do the work.
> 
An usual metric in Smalltalk used to be 1:5 for code comment lines.

> If I see a comment I expect it has something I need to know 
> and therefor read it.  This is extra work, so it needs to 
> pay.  If I read someone's code and the first 10 comments are 
> just duplication of what the code is clearly doing then I am 
> less likely to read the rest, some of which are bound to have 
> something I *do* need to know.  This is the cost I was talking about.
> _______________________________________________

In that way you can't avoid to propose that newbies pay the price. I not
convinced about being clever to force that criteria to be valid for
everbody. You are thinking in the economy of a somehow experienced developer
(presumably your case) but what about the economy of newbies? They should be
forced to pay the price? Are you aware that that price are working as a
barrier to enter to the Smalltalk market? 
I think more options (to access information) shuld be given for newbies
because of it's inexperience. Options that the experienced ones can prune
easily and in a rasonably cheap way using it's own discern.

Regards,

Sebastian